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Title: The American Museum journal
Identifier: americanmuseumj08amer (find matches)
Year: c1900-(1918) (c190s)
Authors: American Museum of Natural History
Subjects: Natural history
Publisher: New York : American Museum of Natural History
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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100 THE AMERICAN MUSEUM JOURNAL Bradley when he returnetl to the rookery told me, "You could a-\valked right aroiuid the ruke-rv on them birds' bodies; between foiu' and five hundred of 'em." The following year, while working toward Cuthbert, my outfit was destroyed by fire, and operations were of necessity postponed. That summer Bradley was shot while on duty, a death he had long predicted for himself, and I made no fiu'ther effort to visit the rookery until 1907, when the plan was defeated by conditions encountered in the Bahamas.
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MAKING A SKETCH FOR THE BACKGROUND OF THE CUTHBERT ROOKERY GROUP In 190.S, however, the trip was made without mishap and, once started, proved to be by no means a difficult undertaking. )\fy special object in visiting Cuthbert was to make studies on which to base a group of Roseate Spoonbills. Fortunately the rookery was found to contain between thirty and forty of these rare birds, together with a dozen Snowy Egrets, three or four hundred American Pvgrets, at least two thousand Louisiana Ilei-ons, with some Hity Little Blue Herons, several hundred White T))ises and a few Cormorants. The Spoonbills and Herons were

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